Coming Oct. 2, Business Week’s Power 100 ranks the most influential people in sports business. Here’s a peek at Stan Kroenke, whose holdings include the St. Louis Rams
Billionaire Stan Kroenke has never much enjoyed the limelight. In ninth grade, during a basketball tournament in central Missouri, Kroenke’s coach tapped him to shoot a free throw for a technical foul. Normally a deadeye shot, Kroenke was unnerved to be playing in front of so many fans. “My knees were knocking,” he recalls. “I missed the free throw and was useless the whole tournament.”
